Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hey, Russell. Very interested to know you have programmed a Simmons 
kit into the DTXpress.  Can you tell me which sounds you use on your 
various pads to replicate that '80s sound?

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Russell" <rpb1966@n...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Carroll" <njcarroll56@y...> 
> wrote:
> > Does anybody remember those octagonal pads that a lot of e-
> drummers 
> > were using in the 1980s? Anyone know what brand of kit they were 
> > playing? I'd love to have some of those '80s sounds on my 
> DTXpress, 
> > because at some stage I'd like to be in a Genesis ("And Then 
There 
> > Were Three" era) cover band.
> 
> 
> 
> AHHHH YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!.
> 
> 
>        I remeber playing on one of the early kits at Simmons which 
> used to be about 4 miles away from where I used to live,that was in 
> my eyes an experience I will never forget,they used to be made in 
St 
> Albans in Hertfordshire,here in the UK in the early 80`s and sold 
> like hot cakes,though they were expensive.But saying that now with 
> the Yamaha DTXpress I have managed to program a very good Simmons 
> kit into it,and incorperating a Roland SPD-6 into it as well,its 
> brilliant.
> 
> 
>                      Russell Butterfield